Welcome to "Tiffin Talks – Zanani / Zamana / Zameen", the final episode of our #ISF2020 season! In this in-depth discussion between writer Shauna Singh Baldwin, filmmaker Baljit Sangra, and visual artist Sandeep Johal, moderated by Suvi Bains

ISF2020: 5×15 Global Edition

Dec 17th, 2020 1h 34m

Listen to some of the most powerful thinkers in the world: Ben Okri, Anita Anand, Sanjay Kak, Marianne Nicholson, Aza Raskin and Kritika Pandey. They take us through complex histories and call on us to fight for and imagine better futures.5×15

ISF2020: Joseph Stiglitz on ‘People, Power, and Profits’ with Arjun Jayadev

Dec 11th, 2020 1h 16m

In our new podcast episode, Joseph Stiglitz and Arjun Jayadev, two of the world’s most renowned economists, explore whether the pandemic offers an unprecedented chance for a new social contract to emerge. What would it take to build a kinder an

ISF2020: It Could Be Verse: Poetry for a Pandemic - Natural World, our Inner Worlds, Containment and Liberation

Dec 3rd, 2020 34m 14s

For centuries, poetry has been the literary form that has told the stories of our times. Poets have been the chroniclers of our battles, the heralds of our celebrations and the ones who have offered us solace in times of need. Join me and my co

ISF2020: It Could Be Verse: Poetry for a Pandemic - Love / Reunions

Nov 27th, 2020 31m 16s

ISF2020: It Could Be Verse: Poetry for a Pandemic - Ancestors and Stories We Remember

Nov 19th, 2020 41m 54s

ISF2020: Vandana Shiva & David Suzuki: The Virus is a Wake-up Call

Nov 13th, 2020 1h 5m

Legendary environmental warriors Vandana Shiva and David Suzuki, come together in this rare conversation across continents. Both are past winners of the ‘Right Livelihood Prize’ often referred to as the ‘alternative Nobel’, and have had enormou

Tiffin Talk: All the World’s a Stage

Mar 12th, 2020 56m 7s

Theatre is a shapeshifting experience – for performer, stage, and audience alike. The stage and the rituals of theatrical placemaking can, in a moment, create startling intimacy or vast distance, can evoke sudden memory, while calling to possib

Tiffin Talk: Walking in Our Finest

Mar 5th, 2020 46m 37s

Clothing, storytelling, expression and identity have always been woven together. In South Asian culture, and in Indigenous Turtle Island, clothing and regalia are crucial forms of cultural and personal expression, exploring the beauty, story, s

Eden Robinson on ‘Tricksters Forever’

Feb 26th, 2020 18m

Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia. Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monke

Pico Iyer on ‘Matters of Life and Death’

Feb 19th, 2020 18m 2s

Pico Iyer is one of the most revered and respected travel writers alive today. An essayist for Time since 1986, he has travelled to over 170 countries and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Harper’s and more than 200 other newspape

Shachi Kurl on ‘I Know What You Think About Immigration’

Feb 12th, 2020 19m 20s

As Executive Director of the Angus Reid Institute, Shachi Kurl can be found offering analysis on CBC’s “At Issue,” Canada’s most-watched political panel, in the Wall Street Journal, the New York times, the Globe and Mail, and on the editorial p

Kamal Pandya on ‘Sometimes Y: How the British Stole My Gender’

Feb 5th, 2020 20m 57s

Kamal Pandya was one of the stellar speakers at 5x15 in Vancouver, hosted by Indian Summer Festival.Kamal Kalyani Pandya is a comedian and writer who is proudly mediocre. Though he catapulted to fame in his short lived role as the secret love

The Beats in India, with Deborah Baker

Jan 29th, 2020 1h 1m

Pulitzer Prize nominee Deborah Baker takes us back to the moment when America’s edgiest writers looked to India for answers as India looked to the West. In 1961 Allen Ginsberg, ecstatic sensualist and the voice of a generation, left New York by

Amitav Ghosh on ‘The Great Derangement’

Jan 22nd, 2020 1h 21m

Are we deranged? Acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so, given our imaginative failure in the face of global warming. In this special presentation, Ghosh charts the complicity of fiction in shapi

Pico Iyer on Love, Life, and Mortality

Jan 15th, 2020 1h 33m

What does it mean to be alive? And how do we hold onto the beings we love, even though we know we and they must come to an end one day?Thinker, writer, and world-traveller TED favourite Pico Iyer has spent his life answering the great question

Literary Changemakers

Dec 11th, 2019 42m 30s

This episode is called “Literary Changemakers”, Chelene Knight of Growing Room Feminist Literary Festival invites Jónína Kirton, and Joanne Arnott to partake in an intimate chat about their own experiences in the Canadian Literary Community. Th

Architecture as an expression of Empathy or Affluence?

Dec 4th, 2019 1h

This episode is titled “Architecture as an expression of Empathy or Affluence?”. BV Doshi, the Indian architect, and winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2018, famously argues that architecture should be informed not by aesthetics of aff

New Museology

Nov 27th, 2019 49m 13s

Dayanita Singh’s Museum Bhavan helps us reimagine what a museum is. The museum as an institution holds memory; what memories, and for whom? What would a museum without walls look like? How ought pieces that were historically stolen be engaged w

Fake News, Lies, and Bulls**t

Nov 20th, 2019 53m 53s

Human beings have spent several centuries in the pursuit of truth, through science, philosophy, art and journalism. Where does that leave us now, when truth seems to be of little importance to the stories we hear, spin, share and react to? What

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